{{Citation style, date=October 2019 Dynamic Pictures Inc. was a San Jose-based company which produced the Oxygen line of high-end 3D graphics cards. In 1997, they produced three PCI-based models: the Oxygen 102, Oxygen 202, and Oxygen 402. The Oxygen 202 and 402 featured an SLI-like design in providing two and four identical

graphics processing units A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a specialized electronic circuit designed for digital image processing and to accelerate computer graphics, being present either as a discrete video card or embedded on motherboards, mobile phones, personal co ...

to achieve higher performance. The graphics processing unit was designed by 3D Labs. The four processor Oxygen 402 received a Viewperf CDRS-03 score of 42. In comparison, a much more recent GeForce FX GL (using a Geforce 5800-class GPU) achieves a 1803 on the same test. The list price for the Oxygen 102 was $1495 1996, later reduced to $399.

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*"Dynamic Pictures", Computerworld, 16 December 1996, p 48. *"High End Graphics Cards", PC Mag, 30 June 1998, p 192, 198, 202, 204, 205. *"High Performance Graphics Boards", PC Mag, 1 September 2000, p 187 and 200. Companies based in San Jose, California